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Humanitarian and medical challenges of assisting new refugees in Lebanon and Iraq [PDF]

Forced Migration Review, 2013
The massive and continuing flows of Syrian and Palestinian refugees to Syria’s neighbours have shown the limitations of humanitarian practice and present new challenges for medical and humanitarian interventions.
Caroline Abu Sa’Da, Micaela Serafini
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Governance Drivers of Fossil Fuel Divestment: Evidence From Global Banks

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses increasing transition risks for the banking sector, as financial institutions remain exposed to fossil fuel activities despite growing sustainability commitments. This study examines whether corporate governance influences banks' decisions to adopt fossil fuel divestment policies.
Rosella Carè, Massimiliano Cerciello, Nathalie Lévy, Simone Taddeo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health aid displacement during a decade of conflict (2011–19) in Syria: an exploratory analysis

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Syria has been in continuous conflict since 2011, resulting in more than 874,000 deaths and 13.7 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees.
Munzer Alkhalil, Maher Alaref, Abdulkarim Ekzayez, Hala Mkhallalati, Nassim El Achi, Zedoun Alzoubi, Fouad Fouad, Muhammed Mansur Alatraş, Abdulhakim Ramadan, Sumit Mazumdar, Josephine Borghi, Preeti Patel   +11 more
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Roger Leonard Burritt, Katherine Leanne Christ   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Kurdish Issue in Turkish-Syrian Relations in the Context of the Syrian Crisis

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2019
The article is devoted to the Kurdish issue in the context of bilateral relations between Turkey and Syria after the start of the 2011 Syrian crisis. Particular attention is paid to the role of the Kurdish issue in the Turkish-Syrian relations.
Anna Garnukovna Gevorgyan
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Euromaidan and Ukrainian Subjective Well‐Being

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2013–2014 Euromaidan in Ukraine was the largest series of pro‐European protests in history. Peaceful civilian protests were met with state violence, resulting in widespread civil unrest, over 100 deaths, and nearly 2000 injuries. The Russo‐Ukrainian War broke out shortly after. We examined the immediate and long‐term changes in Ukrainians’
Aidan Campbell, Elizabeth W. Chan, Kenith Chan, Daniel J. Chiacchia, Ashley K. Dhillon, McLean Morgan, Evi Myftaraj, Haeyoung Gideon Park, Vadym Vasiutynskyi, Felix Cheung   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analytical Framework for System‐Level Fragility Surfaces of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Under Mainshock‐Aftershock Sequences

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conventional single intensity measure (IM) fragility approaches with simplified component dependency assumptions overlook the progressive damage accumulation and evolving inter‐component correlations that govern system behavior under mainshock‐aftershock (MSAS) loading.
Muhammad Rashid, Mayuko Nishio
wiley   +1 more source

The Syrian Crisis and its Impact on Russia Economically and Politically

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2020
Th paper scientifically deals with the Syrian crisis events erupted in 2011 using the historical descriptive and analytical approaches. The importance of the paper comes from the serious crisis that occurred in a region rich of historical crises, and ...
Ali Taha Abdullah Al-Jumaily
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Health System Resilience and Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study of Challenges and Pathways to Inclusion

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pakistan has hosted Afghan refugees for more than four decades, in one of the world's most protracted displacements of people. Afghan refugees receive health services through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and non‐governmental organisation (NGO) supported programmes alongside public sector facilities at every tier.
Zahid Ali Memon, Asma Ummad, Amina Olabi, Natasha Palmer, Sophie Witter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What influenced provision of non-communicable disease healthcare in the Syrian conflict, from policy to implementation? A qualitative study

Conflict and Health, 2018
Background There has been increasing focus on tackling the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) in crisis settings. The complex and protracted crisis in Syria is unfolding against a background of increasing NCD burden.
Sylvia Garry, Francesco Checchi, Beniamino Cislaghi   +2 more
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